Hey check out this story. It makes fun of Connie Chung in that cool smooth journalistic mockery kind of way. Heres a tasty morsel of a sample:
Mr. Schaeffer's jaw drops. He begins to explain that he is talking about corporate responsibility, and that he applauds Connie's overweight guests for taking action against Southwest. Chung is too busy readying herself for another flying leap off the deep end to listen. "Why are you filing a lawsuit and making, as some people would say, a mountain out of a molehill?" An unfortunate choice, as some people would say, of cliché, given the topic at hand. But even this gaffe pales in comparison to the incongruity of the graphic placed directly beneath Connie's guests, which reads, "Flying While Fat." It's a wonder they didn't go with something more tasteful, like "Blubber on Board" or "On a Wing and a Lard Butt."
Its just a fun read in this day of millionaire celebrity anchors and dumb people like Martha Stewart.
This just in: Nude man jumps on SUV and rides for 3 blocks. No it wasn't me! I'm in Texas right now.
Thankfully Americans atleast know they're ignorant. My favorite quotes from this piece:
"Despite the painful legacy of the US military involvement in Vietnam, half the adults and two-thirds of the students incorrectly identified Vietnam as an island. Some respondents even thought Vietnam wasn’t a country; just a war."
"More than 80 per cent of Americans did not know that India, with a population that is four times greater than that of the US, is the world’s largest democracy."
So I know that this article is supposed to be satire, but sadly its a little too true to be seriously funny. Its a good way to summarize the general ignorant American attitude.
Also is it weird if I can actually sympathize more with the computer than the human in this story?
Well thats all for the articles for now...this weekend's expedition is to get Linux installed on the old computer. Last night I got the dual boot worked out okay and got Mandrake 8.2 on there, but its running old school KDE 2.2.2 and I want a bleeding edge KDE 3.0.2. Currently I'm in the throes of the upgrade process. Impression so far: Linux is way too fragmented internally and until some kind of standards team (sort of like for the kernel) comes together and irons out the mess the average Joe is not going to want Linux on his desktop
More later for sure.
Posted by Mr. Keyur at July 20, 2002 12:54 PM